Chronology of Coverage

Jun. 6, 2015

State Dept states in annual report on compliance that Russia has failed to acknowledge that it breached 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty by testing cruise missile. MORE

Jun. 3, 2015

Editorial criticizes United States and other nuclear powers for squandering United Nations disarmament conference in May; regrets dispute between Egypt and Israel that seemed to derail negotiations over weapons-free zone in the Middle East; notes deteriorating relations between US and Russia have stalled efforts to further reduce arsenals in both countries, making it more difficult to argue for restraint in smaller nuclear powers. MORE

Jan. 2, 2015

Editorial urges Pres Obama to persist in trying to find diplomatic solution to dispute with Russia over Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which bans both sides from deploying certain ballistic and cruise missiles; warns heeding call of some congressmen to withdraw from treaty will remove all restraints on Pres Vladimir Putin, who seems bent on trying to reform a Soviet Union; holds Russia must know that defying the treaty will come with grievous cost. MORE

Dec. 28, 2014

Tony de Brum, foreign minister of Marshall Islands, has brought case against the eight nuclear powers of the world and Israel to International Court of Justice as first step in establishing convention to ban such weapons; tiny nation in the Pacific Ocean was site of 67 powerful nuclear tests conducted by United States in 1950s. MORE

Dec. 11, 2014

Defense Dept says Pentagon has developed range of military options to pressure Russia to correct its violation of landmark arms control agreement; aim is to persuade Russia to address Obama administration’s accusation that it has developed ground-launched cruise missile in violation of 1987 treaty banning intermediate-range missiles based on land. MORE

Dec. 4, 2014

International Campaign to Ban Landmines reports deaths and injuries from land mines and other explosive remnants of war fell to lowest level ever recorded in 2013, and that production of weapons appears to have practically ceased; group attributes declines to increased compliance with international Mine Ban Treaty that took effect in 1999. MORE

Nov. 29, 2014

Editorial urges Defense Department to make plans regarding future of America's nuclear weapons program and to address issue of aging nuclear arsenal that far exceeds country's needs; deplores both decay of weapons and facilities and grim reports of drug use, security violations and low morale at nuclear bases; calls for Pres Obama to advance sensible disarmament agenda that he once espoused. MORE

Nov. 14, 2014

Russia tells United States it is planning to reduce its participation in 2015 joint effort to secure nuclear materials on Russian territory; move could strongly undermine more than two decades of cooperation on nuclear security. MORE

Nov. 2, 2014

News analysis; Pres Obama has increasingly been criticized by doves for failing to reduce nation's atomic stockpile as much as his predecessors did, and for modernizing remaining arms and authorizing new generation of weapon carriers; Federation of American Scientists have released report comparing Obama's disarmament record with that of all presidents during nuclear age, which found that he has cut fewer warheads than 'any administration ever.' MORE

Oct. 3, 2014

Senior North Korean envoy says his country is ready to resume six-party talks on its nuclear program, but must maintain its readiness in face of joint military exercises between United States and South Korea. MORE

Sep. 23, 2014

Editorial criticizes Pres Obama for investing tens of billions of dollars to modernize nation's nuclear arsenal and facilities; holds it is a huge step back from the clear-sighted disarmament goals he set upon taking office; contends spending is unwise, poorly managed, and will degrade nation's security in the long run. MORE

Sep. 22, 2014

Obama administration is overseeing massive expansion and renewal of nation's nuclear arsenal despite having run an international disarmament campaign that was once a centerpiece of its foreign policy; study estimates that process, which began as a modest attempt at modernization, could cost some one trillion dollars over three decades; disarmament advocates have expressed baffled disappointment at change. MORE

Aug. 18, 2014

Paul Krugman Op-Ed column submits that escalating situation in Ukraine and centenary of World War I, 'the war to end all wars,' each provide reason to examine why military battles continue to be fought; holds that question is particularly important given that wealthy nations rarely profit from war and are instead extremely costly; suggests that wars often provide political boost or distraction for nation's ruling party. MORE

Jul. 31, 2014

Russia denies accusations by United States that it violated significant arms control treaty by testing cruise missiles. MORE

Jul. 29, 2014

Senior American officials say United States has concluded that Russia violated landmark nuclear arms control treaty by testing prohibited ground-launched cruise missile; allegation by Obama administration adds another dispute to relationship already burdened by tensions over Kremlin's support for separatists in Ukraine. MORE

Jul. 5, 2014

Editorial urges Pres Obama to set specific timetable and goals for signing international treaty outlawing use of land mines; notes that United States is at once largest financial contributor to global mine clearance and most significant holdout for treaty, maintaining stockpile of at least three million mines; applauds Obama administration's indication that it plans to join treaty eventually, but says more decisive action is needed. MORE

Jun. 28, 2014

Obama administration announces that the military will no longer produce or acquire antipersonnel land mines or replace old ones that expire, putting the United States on course to eventually signing global treaty, known as the Ottawa Convention. MORE

Mar. 26, 2014

Editorial maintains that summit meeting in The Hague of 53 international leaders has made important progress on securing nuclear materials around the world; praises decision by Japan to turn over an estimated 1,100 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium to the United States for disposal; calls for binding international legal standards for nuclear materials, and a treaty to ban the production of fissile material altogether. MORE

Jan. 30, 2014

United States informs its NATO allies that Russia has tested a new ground-launched cruise missile, raising concerns about Moscow’s compliance with a landmark arms control accord; such tests are prohibited by the treaty banning medium-range missiles that was signed in 1987 and that has long been viewed as one of the bedrock accords that brought an end to the Cold War. MORE

Jan. 9, 2014

Report issued by private advocacy group Nuclear Threat Initiative on the security of nuclear materials finds steady improvements in their safekeeping, with the number of nations with fuel for atomic bombs dropping to 25 from 32 since 1991. MORE

Oct. 24, 2013

Op-Ed article by Oscar Arias Sanchez, former president of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, warns the United States is passing up opportunities to earn its place as a world leader; urges US Senate to ratify the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, since that will ensure the safety of all citizens as well as support a renaissance of American leadership on the world stage. MORE

Oct. 1, 2013

Editorial calls on United States and other member nations to immediately ratify United Nations arms trade treaty; holds it will significantly boost control of world's $70 billion global market in conventional weapons; contends National Rifle Association's opposition is fear-mongering effort entirely without merit. MORE

Sep. 26, 2013

United States and 17 other countries officially sign pioneering United Nations treaty aimed at regulating the global trade in conventional weapons. MORE

Sep. 24, 2013

United States has been working to dispose of its chemical weapons for decades, costly process complicated by concerns about public health and the environment; difficulties of American effort underscore those faced by Syria, which has agreed to eliminate its entire chemical arsenal as part of American-Russian plan. MORE

Sep. 23, 2013

Op-Ed article by policy expert Kenneth M Pollack warns Iranian Pres Hassan Rouhani's seeming desire to move Iran in a new direction should not blind the United States to difficulties of achieving a diplomatic solution; contends best outcome, should diplomacy fail, is containment of a nuclear Iran, rather than using force to prevent it from acquiring a nuclear arsenal. MORE

Jul. 7, 2013

Op-Ed article by theoretical physicist Lawrence M Krauss questions why United States does not unilaterally reduce number of its nuclear warheads without negotiating with Russia for similar reduction in its nuclear arsenal; contends much of the thinking about nuclear weapons is a hangover from a different era and is inappropriate to security demands of the present world. MORE

Jun. 23, 2013

Editorial expresses disappointment with Pres Obama's latest nuclear weapons proposals, which he announced in Berlin; contends set of directives outline a limited, incremental agenda that falls short of what is needed in a post-cold-war world in which the United States and Russia still have thousands of nuclear weapons. MORE

Jun. 20, 2013

Pres Obama’s new disarmament goal of reducing world's largest nuclear arsenals, announced in a speech in Berlin, draws skepticism from Russia and United States Congress alike. MORE

Jun. 19, 2013

Pres Obama plans to use speech in Berlin to outline further reductions in American nuclear arsenal if Russia agrees to pare back its weapons at same time; proposal, which would resume abandoned drive toward disarmament, faces obstacles from both Russia and Senate Republicans. MORE

Mar. 22, 2013

Russian and American officials report progress in discussions about nuclear weapons reductions, sign that renewed cooperation may be under way just days after United States canceled part of Europe-based missile defense program that had infuriated the Kremlin. MORE

Feb. 24, 2013

Editorial calls on Pres Obama to fulfill his promise and follow through on his commitment to reducing nuclear arsenals around world. MORE

Feb. 11, 2013

President Obama plans to use his State of the Union speech to reinvigorate one of his signature security objectives of drastically reducing nuclear arsenals around the world; Obama has secured agreement in recent months with the United States military that the American nuclear force can be cut in size by roughly a third; how to accomplish reduction in the face of Republican opposition in the Senate remains an open question. MORE

Jan. 14, 2013

Op-Ed article by policy expert Ward Wilson contends support for nuclear weapons depends on five widely held myths; outlines and attempts to dispel those myths and prove nuclear weaponry is thing of past. MORE

Dec. 4, 2012

Pres Obama calls on Russia to renew two-decade-old nuclear disarmament program that Moscow has threatened to cancel as two sides try to figure out future of rocky relationship now that elections in both countries are over. MORE

Oct. 11, 2012

Russian government says it will not renew hugely successful 20-year partnership with the United States to safeguard and dismantle nuclear and chemical weapons in former Soviet Union when program expires in spring 2013; decision is potentially grave setback in already fraying relationship between the former cold war enemies. MORE

Jun. 15, 2012

Sen Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, calls on the Obama administration to seek cuts in nuclear warheads far beyond the requirements of current treaties; says that there is no reason for having such a large inventory given the diminished nuclear threat and tighter military budgets. MORE

Jun. 11, 2012

Editorial criticizes House Republicans for approving a defense authorization that would freeze the number of nuclear weapons at current levels, saying it would reverse disarmament efforts and waste billions of dollars on other unnecessary programs. MORE

May. 16, 2012

Gen James E Cartwright, former commander of the United States nuclear forces, calls for a drastic reduction in the number of nuclear warheads below the levels set by agreements with Russia, and further safeguards to prevent accidental nuclear war; proposals, signed by several other senior national security figures, are part of report to be issued by nuclear policy organization Global Zero. MORE

Apr. 4, 2012

Op-Ed article by Bernard Aronson, former assistant secretary of state, considers how Brazil could use its growing international status to help stop the spread of nuclear weapons; suggests if Brazil renounced its uranium enrichment rights and called on other nations, particularly Iran, to follow suit, it would transform the nuclear debate. MORE

Mar. 22, 2012

North Korea warns that criticism of its nuclear weapons program would be considered a 'declaration of war,' as global leaders prepare to meet on nuclear security in Seoul. MORE

Jan. 16, 2012

Op-Ed article by University of Maryland Prof Shibley Telhami and Steven Kull, the director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes, asserts that working toward a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East is a feasible option for handling Iran's nuclear ambitions. MORE

Jan. 8, 2012

Author Philip Taubman Op-Ed article asserts that the United States could reduce its nuclear arsenal by two-thirds without diminishing its power or undercutting national security; argues that American leadership on this issue is essential to any hope of containing the threat of unchecked nuclear weapons. MORE

Nov. 26, 2011

Fifty countries reject an American-led effort to conclude an international treaty restricting the use of cluster munitions, bombs and rockets that scatter a large number of smaller submunitions over a large area; opponents say treaty does not address humanitarian concerns and would undermine existing international law. MORE

Nov. 24, 2011

Russian Pres Dmitri A Medvedev warns that Russia will deploy its own missiles and could withdraw from the New Start nuclear arms reduction treaty if the United States moves forward with its plans for a missile-defense system in Europe. MORE

Oct. 15, 2011

US State Dept is sending dozens of American contractors, weapons and explosives specialists, to Libya as part of a growing $30 million program to secure Libya's conventional weapons arsenal, ransacked during the fall of the government of Col Muammar el-Qaddafi; American and other Western officials are concerned that as weapons slip from state custody they could easily be sold through black markets to other countries to fuel regional wars or arm terrorist groups. MORE

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July 30, 2015, Thursday

Critics of the Iran nuclear deal claim it is flawed, among many reasons, because it does not demand that Tehran also change its behavior at home and abroad. That complaint ignores the United States' long history of striking arms control agreements...